At the time this was made, Arp seldom gave titles to his reliefs; however, reliefs of this type appear nowadays in monographs as 'Configuration', 'Constellation' or 'According to the Laws of Chance'. The artist therefore suggested that this work should be called 'Constellation according to the Laws of Chance'. He thought that it is almost certainly a unique piece; although he made editions of many of his reliefs, this was rather exceptional during the thirties in the case of the larger reliefs and especially those in which certain elements were painted. The first reliefs of this particular kind were made in 1930 (letter from Mme Marguerite Arp, 22 October 1959).

Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.21-2, reproduced p.21